Contemporary art Mexico
By: editor, Hossein Amirsadeghi ; executive editor, Catherine Petitgas ; project director, Ursula Verea Hernández ; essays, Tanya Barson, Daniel Garza Usabiaga, María Minera
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780500970645
Subjects: Mexican Art; Artists
Description: Extensively illustrated and based on the most up-to-date research, Contemporary Art Mexico highlights 115 of the most prominent players, including 72 artists and 43 personalities and institutions. Featured artists, who have been selected for their relevance to local practice, their engagement with their peers and their international profiles, include such older-generation figures as Graciela Iturbide and Eduardo Terrazas; influential figures from the 1990s such as Gabriel Orozco, Francis Alÿs, Damián Ortega and Melanie Smith; and such emerging talents as Edgardo Aragón, Iñaki Bonillas, Adriana Lara and Marco Rountree Cruz. Leading galleries, curators, collectors and other key cultural figures are also featured. Critical essays by María Minera, Daniel Garza Usabiaga and Tanya Barson provide a carefully crafted background against which contemporary developments can be both appreciated and understood.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mexicanidad, or, The Mexican-ness of contemporary art  -- Hossein Amirsadeghi; title: Modern art in Mexico  -- Daniel Garza Usabiaga; title: Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?  -- María Minera; title: From emotional architecture to entropic abstraction : Mexico modern and contemporary -- Tanya Barson -- Artists, personalities and organisations -- Timeline.; title: Artists, personalities and organisations : Eduardo Abaroa; title: Francis Alÿs; title: Carlos Amorales; title: Edgardo Aragón; title: Julieta Aranda; title: Marcela Armas; title: Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo; title: Erick Beltrán; title: Diego Berruecos; title: Iñaki Bonillas; title: Stefan Brüggemann; title: Miguel Calderón; title: Pia Camil; title: Tania Candiani; title: Mariana Castillo Deball; title: José León Cerrillo; title: César Cervantes; title: Patrick Charpenel; title: Emilio Chapela; title: El Chopo; title: Colección Isabel & Agustín Coppel; title: Moiśés Cosío; title: Abraham Cruzvillegas; title: Minerva Cuevas; title: José Dávila; title: Gabriel de la Mora; title: Felipe Ehrenberg; title: Escula Nacional de artes Plásticas (ENAP); title: Esculea Superior de Arte de Yucatán; title: Pedro Friedeberg; title: Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo; title: Gaga Arte Contemporáneo; title: Galería de Arte Mexicano; title: Galería Enrique Guerrero; title: Mario García Torres; title: Galería OMR; title: Ramiro & Gabriela Garza; title: Thomas Glassford; title: Lourdes Grobet; title: Silvia Gruner; title: Daniel Guzmán; title: Pablo Helguera; title: Jonathan Hernández; title: Arturo Hernández Alcázar; title: Boris Hirmas; title: Fritzia Irizar; title: Graciela Iturbides; title: Enrique Jĕzik; title: Alejandro Jodorowsky; title: Gabriel Kuri; title: kurimanzutto; title: LABOR; title: Ximena Labra; title: La Esmeralda; title: Lake Verea; title: Dr. Lakra; title: Adriana Lara; title: Magali Lara; title: Alejandra Laviada; title: Gonzalo Lebrija; title: Pablo León de la Barra; title: Eugenio López Alonso; title: Rafael Lozano Hemmer; title: Teresa Margolles; title: Claudia Madrazo; title: Patrica Martín; title: Jorge Méndez Blake; title: Moisés Micha; title: Moris; title: Museo Amparo; title: Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil; title: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO); title: Museo de Arte Moderno; title: Museo de Arte de Zapopan; title: Museo Experimental El Eco; title: Museo Tamayo; title: Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC); title: Yoshua Okón; title: Edgar Orlaineta; title: Ariel Orozco; title: Gabriel Orozco; title: Damián Ortega; title: Fernando Ortega; title: Rubén Ortiz Torres; title: Tania Pérez Córdova; title: Paloma Porraz; title: Proyectos Monclova; title: Pablo Rasgado; title: Pedro Reyes; title: Ana Roldán; title: Fernando Romero; title: Daniela Rossell; title: Marco Rountree Cruz; title: Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros: La Tallera; title: Osvaldo Sánchez Crespo; title: Guillermo Santamarina; title: Eduardo Sarabia; title: Jorge Satorre; title: Santiago Sierra; title: Aimée Servitje; title: Patricia Sloane; title: Melanie Smith; title: SOMA; title: José Noé Suro; title: Tercerunquinto; title: Eduardo Terrazas; title: Francisco Toledo; title: Laureana Toldedo; title: Travesía Cuatro; title: Francisco Ugarte; title: Pablo Vargas Lugo; title: José Antonio Vega Macotela; title: Yautepec; title: Héctor Zamora; title: Zona MACO.